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H F;, OC.DF.N CITY UTAH, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 28. 1922. LAST EDITlON-4 P M. H
r COLORADO TO ARREST STRIKERS I
I CASE OF TEX RICKARD IS READY FOR JURY I
II CREDIT MORE
r- EASY IN 12TH
U. S. DISTRICT
Agent of Federal Reserve
Sums Up Conditions in
This Territory
BETTER FOR FARMERS
Fewer Men Jobless; Stocks
of Grain, Canned Goods,
etc., Less
SAN FRANCISCO March 28. Eas
ier credit condition in agricultural
actions have hern the Immediate re-
Milt ol advancing prices for the prin-
ojpaj agricultural products ol the
1 Twelfth federal reservt district lohn
' Perrir, federal reserve agent, declared
In his monthly report made public I
hero today.
"During the four week ending
March ft, normally a period of norm- I
credit expansion In this di-trlct. coun-
trj member hanks reduced their bor- ,
...wing- from the feilcrnl reserve bank
hy approximately $3,000,000 or 8.'-' per
cepr tht report Mid. "In the same
period, the, prevailing interest rate
, rge,l borrower In Salt Iako City,
liii' financial Center Of the Intcrmoun
tuln di n : dri lined from 8 to 7 per
. enl end In Bpokene, the center of an
other great agricultural section, from
7 to tf 1-2 per cent.
"Advancet during the past two I
months in the prices of farmers' prod
ucts, aocompeniad ax they have been
W 1V SlaUllllV or n cumiiiui-u '""""'
BM decline In the price of mom other
H groups of commodities, have effected
H uure nearly normal relation between
tin prices of thin the farmer sells
wf .inu the price of the thing he must
m rtan h is prevailed toi the peal
r and a half Buch m adjustment
hae long n considered eaaentlal to
I nny marked Improvement of the gem-
. ial business situation.
srrcx ks of whi n
In ontrasl with condition! til
ing year ago, carryover stocks of ag
h prod u i 1 n,M "
Ml 4 normal I he Mai i h i
p report United 9tolaes d
of wheat on the farms of the principal
H . h- ii growing its oa ol t ' ;
amounted to but 10 per cent of the
forner season crop. Last year on
he same date approximately It? per
cent of the lit-"1 crop was si III held by
the producers. Slocks uf harley In
California have been imllarly reduc
ed from the exceptionally high levels
B of 1 J 2 1 and holding of wool and can-
tlfd goods and dried fruit are leu than
Lha amounts customarily on hand at
this season.
Productive activity in this district
wan ell sustained during th short
3S nonth ol Februarj in the lumber in-
dustry. production, shipments and or
tiers received were greater than in
January. 1S22, or I cbruary. in:' 1. The
mills operated at approximately 83 per
cent of normal capacity compared
With 60 per cent a year ago The r -sumption
of inquiries for lumber from
BBBBBsl ihi agricultural states of the middle
I. -t wax i particularly hopeful sik'n
i specially for the inland mills w hich '
have not shared the thriving water I
IT tXadl 1 1 ll the AH Bl in : l.i
pan. ontlnued slow impi "V ui'i.i as
notlceabLf In the nilninf,- industry ef
fected llfore by lowered ptS of pro
duction than by appreciation In mln
ernl prices. Work Is procecding,slow-i
ly at the five large Coppor mines n
the district, which in January, an-I
nuunced that operations would ! re
sumed. No ore has yet been mined by
them.
MORI mi v WORKING
"Increased productive activity and
tho resumption of seasonal outdoor
work in some sections have combined
to relievo the unemployment situation
and more men were emploved in I-en
ruary than In January. The peak of
unemployment appears to hTS been
B - Votwlthstanding accumulating evl-
LH dence of better business in the future.
H buyers both at retail and at wholi I
H are proceeding i.iutlouKl Ketall
H sales as reported in 33 department
H stores and mull order houses
pared less favorably in February with
LbbbbbbbI those of the previous year than did
B -gf i
B
H than a vear ago. compared with a de-
ail ,-iine of but n i.e. . enl ii"", .i tnuarj
Wg 1 i., J. mi; 1981
H "Sales at wholeaale. reported by ISa
H firms in 10 lines of business, did not.
M rontinue the improvement noted in
Hfl ,.,lCh mntllll
TS. . I . . I.. I iii 1 1 1 I elirll
BBBBBBBBBBI parison 01 -- - .
H arv of this year with sales In the cor-
M reipondlnB months l;u: .ear shows I
1 that In seven of the ten lines, there,
1 was Increase, during February, in
Hi thn percentage of decline m value
ae comp d 1,1
H five of the ten lines Ihe decline In the
value Afsaiei iter than the a v-
H decline of dur-
H inff the past year. Indicating u decrea ir
wJ. m the -
h (he
Bl ILDLSG KTi 1V1TV
H "UulldlnK continues
H than a ago Th- number or per-
,,iits is-ued in 2 prlncl&al cltiee ii
1 pebruai
I (Oontiunod on Page I wo
JEWELL SAYS SHOPMEN LACK SUFFICIENT FOOD1
I CROQK GETS JOB HS
COP M CflY WHERE
HE IS WAITED
SEATTLE, Wash., March 28
While three photographs
which detectives state were
those of Fred L Trombly
graced the rog-ue's gallery in
central station here, Trombly
himself served for six months
as a Seattle patrolman He now
is under arrest and police an
nounce they have his confession
to a series of robberies here
The record ascribed to him
was that of a term for grand
larceny, an escape from Monroe
reformatory, a six months' sen
tence for petit larceny and a
sentence of six to 15 years in
the state penitentiary for the
theft of diamonds
;
WYOMING MAN
SIT TO DEATH
IN STATEROOM
'His Wife Tells Police
Wound Resulted From
Drunken Frenzy
LEJSJ BUR, Minn, March 28 E. C.
11, - , r Cup. i Win., was f;il. ill." shol
last night In a stateroom aboard a
Chicago St. Paul Minneapolis & Oma
ha passenger train. Ho died here.
Mrs Hell, who U held without
charge pending the coroners Inquest,
told the authorities her husband had
been drinking and (hot he had enter
tained i partv of men In their state-
i room fn rn 'he time the train left Mln-
! neapoll".
I The fatal wound was Inflicted, she
I said, after her husband took a revol
ver from under his pillow and started
I shooting She aald she tried to take
'it,.- run awkv from him. "but he kept
on -hooting and then he went limp." l
B ULiROAD EMTIO Yl
CASl'ER. Wvo.. March 28. Earl i
Clark Bell, of Casper, reported shot
and Killed on a train near I Sueur.
Minn . left here March 1. with hi-,
v.iie Ellen T. Hell, for Minnesota, to
visit relatives of Mrs. Hell, It was
I learned from friends lu re todoy. They
expected to be gone a month.
Mr. Hell was an employe of u local
railroad and hved In Caspar for three
I years.
, or '
FIRST INDICTMENT
OF ROBED TERRORIST
BAKEKSFIEl.D. Cal.. March 28
I The first indictments In connection
with activities Of masked and robed
... i- ..,.,,. r .! V. itlr i. ll il
I considerable attention recent I;. w ere i
I returned Monday. They were two in
number and. charged W. M. Pickens J
' with assault and robbery.
I IMckens was identified by Clyde
' IMehey. a taxlcah driver, as mie of
the five men who attacked him. The
'polb e said soon nTter Pickens' arrest
' that brack robes, similar to those
I Richer naid his ntUckers wore, were
found in Pickens automobile when
he was arrested.
Police and district attorney declare.
they do not believe the Ku Klux Kian
was Involved in the attack on Rlehey.
FORMER ARCHDUKE
ASKS FOR CHARITY
I BASEL S.v Itzerland. March 28.
Tilt former Austrian Archduke Leo-
i pold. who broke with the house of
. Ilapsburgs 10 years ago. as a result of
i,u marriage to a Vinnese aclress. has
applied to the little town of Regens
bOrg for aid from the paupers' fund.
His wife, whom he divorced, has also
4ked for aid
The archduke took tbc name "f Leo
pold WoelflnC at the tini nl I is t.rak
I w ith his royal relatives. He la living
i in Vienna and his former wife Is In
I Peril"
PROMOTER IS
CONFUSED ON
CROSS-EXAMS
Rickard Says He Doesn't
Know Number on Foot
ball Team
GAME IS HIS ALIBI
First Contest He Ever At
tended, Defendant Says
in Explanation
NEW YORK. March Evidence
I In the Richard trial was all In at noon
Itodaj Supreme Court Justice Was
heervogel told the jury he hoped to glVS
them the case late today after both
Bldt I bad summed up.
The state In its efforts to prove that
Vox Rickard bad assaulted 16-year-old
Sarah 8 hoenfeld. called only one
I witness In rebuttal Detective Mc
Qann, who arresied the .-ports promo
ter last January. The defense took
several exceptions.
The defense Indicated It wa$ through
I when oross-exarnlnalion of Rickard
ended.
Dol s i know I OOTB 1IJD
The sport promoter this morning .
admitted that he was so little ac
quainted with football that he did not
know the number of players In a team
The first touch of levity that has j
murlii-il i he 11 In I came u Idle tl e de
fendant was being cross-examined re
garding his alibi that he was at the
Dartmouth - Pennsylvania football
game at the Polo Grounds on NoVSm- '
ber 12, at the tlmo when he was sup- ,
posed to have m.t Sarah Schuenfeld
Rickard testified that the Dartmouth-Pennsylvania
encounter was
ihe first and only game of football he
had ever seen and that he went to the
Polo Grounds only to get the air !
Asked how the elevens lined up he
nnswered that the were Just "scat
tered around "
UK K-OF1 PI ZZIjE
'Did you see any kick-off?' asked
Assistant District Attorney X Pecora.
"What kl:id of a kick-off?'
Asked to describe plays hr- had Wit
1 nessed. he said he had seen everyone
trying to take the ball away from the
i man who was running with it He ad
mitted later that he Bid not know that
this wafl a violation of tho rules. He
added that the crowd seemed crazy
about some run they were talking
about
"When the cross-eamlnatlon shirt
led to Richard's business enterprise,
he added he had promoted a number
of oil and mining companies that nv
1 er had paid any dividends. He also
,.o,in.,a tn lmvlnir tried to sell stmk
In the South American l-md and 'at
i tie company, an organization which
Ihe said he had met with little success.
MAKES PLAT DEN1 ILS
Tex Rickard denied Monday thai he
ever had misconducted himself with
the Kit l I he stories "old about him I
by Barah and her 12-year-old chum I
i Nellie Gaslto. the sports promoter con-
Lradlcted almost In their entirety. j
1 en me i lone i ros- rxn nunat Ion
R. kanl also swore be never had lm-
i proper relations with women of AlaS-j
I ka or Neva'ds during the gold rushes
, In those sections.
"It never happened." he said When
sristant i-trlci Attorney Pecora
aekad if he hadn't lived with a woman
at Nome and then abandoned her. rts
i made the same answer when asked f
he had not tried to Induce a lB-yfcar-i
old blonde girl, a cigar store clerk,
i ontinucd on Pace Two i
Stork Brings Girl
and $ 1 00,000 Also
OAKLAND. Cal.. March 28.-James C Blum. Jr.. by becoming ihe lathe-
of a girl, has won the right to Inherit two necklaces, one of
diamonds and the other of pearls, valued together at $100,000. His
mother. Mrs Rose Blum, bequeathed them to be his when his wife gave
birth to a daughter
Blum who already had come into possession ol ihe rest of his moth
er'a $330 000 esiate. brought suit last year to get the necklacei because
his wife had borne a son He contended that this was suitictently close
to' fulfilling the terms of the will, but the court thought otherwise and
dismissed the case. The will provided he should he eivep half tlx es
tale at 35 vear of age. and the rest except the necklace, when be was 10
The pearl necklace figured In the San Francisco courts last year,
when Superior Judge Thomas F Graham ordered that it should be laken
trom a safe deposit box and worn once every 30 days to keep the pearls
from losing their luster.
SENATE SOON
! TO BE GOTH
I TARIFF BILL
Pres. Harding Has Given
Hint He Wants It
Hurried Along ,
W A SI t I .s ' ' -x o-rtiKU -u- V. , 1
denCS thai the tariff Mil would be,
reported to the senate by the finance,
committee thl we'k was expressed to
.1 iv by Senator Watson. Indiana, a
member of the committee and Sena
tor Curtis of Kansas, assistant Re
publican leader In the senate, today,
on leaving the White House after a
conference with President Hardlnc
The Indiana senator said the rom
I mlttoe would reach an early declion
j on the question of contlnulnv; the pres
ent plan of lev ying duties on the for-1
1 eign valuation of articles Imported ori
adopt the American wholesale price,
as the basis for tariff duties
Both Senators said the president de
sired to know the status of the tariff
hill and w hen they expected to get It
In-fore the nnte Senator YVatSOn
! declared that "we expect to clean
lit all up this week." and lo inn fSl
the bill to the senate floor.
no '
LAWMAKERS VISIT
NITRATE PLANTS
SHEFFIELD, Ala., March 28.
Member- of the m-n.ii" agricultural
nnd bouse military ai lairs commun i s
inspecting government property at
Muscle Shoals, spent todav on a tour
of nitrate plants NOS 1 and 2. The
party reached here Monday mcht af
ter spending the first day of the tour
studvlng the government Gorgas-War-1
rlor steam plant In Walker county.
BALFOUR IS GOING
TO HOUSE OF PEERS
I Ei iM " N March 28 i. H? A'
(aoclated Press) Sir Arthur Balfour Is
I to be created an earl the Bveniug
'News says It asserts he has found
life in the house of commons dull
without official duties t.. perform, and
' remarks that he would be a Godsend
t0 the house of peers, where hi- abU
1 Itv as a dialectician would be Inval
I labli
mtmm
5000 VACANT
FLATS, CLAIM
Eftill Renters Cannot Get
Decent Place for S50 a
Month
CHICAGO. March 28 There are!
6 000 vacant flats now In t hh ago nni,
by Juno 1. that number will be doub
led, says M. S. Walsh, secretary of rhe
tenants league The reason, he says.
Is that prices are too high.
"landlords are asking anywhere
from to $250 a month tor thom
ami people cannot pay," declares Mr
WalSh. "Trv and tfet a flat where
you'd like to live for $50. You cannot
do It.'
A prominent member of the Chic igo
Real Estate Board both agrees and1
dissents.
"There are probablv more than 6,-
000 vacant flats 1kmi. 'altlfough
1 have no actual fiKures, but there
will be fewer by June 1, rather than
more."
The real estate man agrees with
Walsh in that a man who could af
ford only $50 a month for rent was
"Up against It."
BLUEBEARD' LOSES
HIS NAME AND HEAD
PARIS. March 28. Henri Desire
iLandru. guillotined February 25, for
th mnnlM ,.f 10 women ami S boV.
lOS) his name when he lost his head..
I I. man v. ho astounded those who I
watched the trial by hln desire I
for publicity is burled ll. .in unmarked I
grave where his daughter and two J
sons haw been authorised, at their re-1
quest to putt e i stujill cross marked
only "H nrl Desire."
The children have also asked au
thority to change iheir names to
BEST 'STORE' TEETH
TAKEN BY ROBBERS
I EVERETT. Wash-, March 2S False
leeth valued at $550 are being soucht
bv Everett pi, lie Tnt.. were stolen
from two dental offices i inly the most
expensive sets of "store" teeth were
taken.
Ban Against Smoking By Women
Found To Be Terrible Mistake
i
NEW YORK. March 28. Police
Commissioner Eniight today lifted i
the ban on smoking ly women In pub-
I lie a suddenly as he clamped It down j
last night, when he learned that AI-i
derman McGulnne.-.- antl-rSmOking 01
IdlnanCS never had been passed by tht
board of aldermen or signed by Mayor
Hylan.
Daniel W. I". McCory. an employe In
the city clerk's office, was led forth in
sack cloth and ashes, as the "Koat"
for an error that had set pro- and even
I anti-smokiiiK women on ihe war path
I from the battery lo the far reaches of
, Harlem.
I McCory It w as explained; was charg"
ed vviih clipping th official oltj
I record for resolutions and ordl
l nances that have been adopted and
approved b ihe mayor and send- j
lng them along to ihe proper officials'
for enforcement. He was still trying
to explain how the anil-smoking bill
was sent along today when City Clerk
Cruise rallied to his support with a
broadside against Commissioner En
rlKht rt staff for lulling lo examine th
purported ordinance carefully enough
!to see that It was not properl) stamp
1 ed a nd endorsed.
1 News that ll wae all a mistake came
'like a reprieve from the gallOW to
proprietors of BOOMS Ol places Where
gratification of milady's passion for
I the soothing weed war the chief
: source of bread and butter revenues.
Fashionable smoke hops for w n
bad sprung up in Fifth avenue. Broad-
,wr,v mil oth' i- advanced centers, while
Greenwich Village had come to de
pend almost exclusively on smoker
to produce an atmosphere of boheml
am ii -nice fyv passage of thf "cup
thai cheers."
The ordinance had ita effect even on
downtown .aleterlas. where stenog
lm pliers and women clerks foregather'
for luncheon. For tin- smoking "evil" :
ihp orlnance was designed fo check
has spread l New York wllh women,
jlti mrrny walks of life.
( Tax-cab drivers were beginning to (
!wonv . too. lor n .ii tin ir conveyances
might be ruled "public place" and
I banned as smokers for fair fares en
I routs home from the theatres.
Alderman McGulnnetts father of the
j ordinance that had a hectic lif" from
sundown to sunrise, was almost the
onlj New Torker discoverable tuday
I a ho seemed lb regret Its passing.
UNION LEADER
MAKES PLEA TO
RAILWAY OOARD
.Families of Shopmen Al
t' ready Going Without
Necessaries, He Says
CANNOT STAJNJJ UUio
Wage Reduction Means Re
duction in Pounds of
Nourishment, Claim
CHICAGO! March 28. The busi
ness concern which cannot meel Its
fixed charges Is bankrupt failure to
provide a healthful standard ..r livin,;
for his family a workingman's fixed
charge means eventful physical and
'moral bankruptcy io the nation Thto
, was the i om Oil which B -Vi Jewel.,
head of the simp crafts union-- bused
his plea for a living wage f.r the na
' iions raHwprV-?ra today before thn
' United States labor board
I Figures compering rail road em
! ploves' expenditures fi r f"""l
'minimum requirements for hate sub
I slstence as worked out b Professor
M. K. jnua, ioou '"'"i
University of California showed that
railroad mechanics In 1931 were aide
to purchase bui 64 per cent of Ihe
meat, fish milk and eggs necessary
for maintenance of, their fa mill- - ai
vhe lowest level of safety, Mr. JvW.eH
said.
HIGHER W IGES I K-l D
Higher wages rather than a tun. re
i.ui were urged on the board by Mr
Jewell In his fight against the 10 pei
cent sla-h propose, h; J05 reads now .
before the board. Wages, he assert
ed, were" the litehlood of th.- nation
and reduction of wages menns reduc
tion of nourishment to the bodies bl
citizens "
'The railroad Industry doe not to
day pay a living wage- to the mechan
ics emploved In its shops," said Mr,
Jewell YV.- have measured th' ac.
age monthly earnings of men In tin
i railroad rhops'cv ever- possible stand
ard and n every instance they are
found w anting
PI R( !l -l(. I'OW 1 R SHOW v
"Tho purchasing power of reil rall
, road families was demonstrated by
1 the analysis of 254 Itemised monthly
, expense accounts They are distribut
ee over in'- vouim?.
elected The statements include care
I ful records of food and quantities
bought.
' The average income of these fam
ilies amounted to $1 The in
come from railroad falls short by
nearly $200 00 a ear of the actual
amount which those families spent.
With prices prevailing 'during the
r,-r Of 1921. mechanic s In railroad
shops were anie lo p"-' '
per ceirit of the meat fish, milk and,
i-ggs in- - irv In maintain their act
ual families at the lowest level ofj
safety. Mr Jewell sold They were
able he continued, to purchase only
77 per cent of the necessary cereal
food: onlv si per cent of the neces
nrv vegetables and fruits and only
71 per cent of the necessary butter.
fatS. and oils. .
in -l Ul S OBVIOl B
The result of such a deficit in
terms of the general phvslque of the
rountrv and also in terms of the ef
ficient operutmn of th.e railroads is
sufficiently obvious. If any industry
cannot meet Its first fixed charge, the
pavment of a healthful livelihood to
its employes It Is Indeed a bankrupt."
I the union learer declared
Assuming that ISO.OOrt of the coun
try's 600.000 railroad shopmen have
1 families to support, Mr Jewell estt
i mated that their families suffered s
deficit of 162 million pounds of meat.
fish eggs and milk: SI. 160 pounds of
flour and cereals. SO. 240. 000 pounds
of potatoes, vegetables and fruits and,
12.960.000 pounds of butter, oils nmli
fats during the ve.i r
Y IGES LIFE BL '
"Wages are the lifcblood of the
nation. ' continued Mr. Jewell "The
are not money they are pounds of life
blood which flow oul to nourish the
body of the people A reduction In
wanes does not mean a reduction in
dollars and cents. It means a redUC
lion In pounds of nourishment to the
bodies of cltiicens
... I - n nm. S.,- t A . 1 f ttTT. 1 1 C
Agencies kioii ...v.c.
! wage levels have no monetary prob
' lem. They are rationing the chief
part of the peculation- There can bn
only one consideration it Is this Can
i any of the goods that wages will now
I buy be taken away without Injury to
the body and soul of the nation?
i Consideration on this basis will
load Inevitably to the conclusion that
the present budget of ihe ware earn
ers cannot be oared down Tt will
lend r.,!her to the conclusion that the
purchasing power of th employes of
the railroads must Immediately be In
creased Advocates of wage reduction
must determine what goods which thn
employed now purchae hall In the
future be denied them."'
1ST GIVE 30
DAYS NOTICE,
STATE HOLDS
ssn
Colorado to Test Ruling
Which Requires Due
Strike Warning
HARD FIGHT AHEAD
(Both Sides Agree Neither
Can Look for Easy
DENVER. Colo.. March 2S. DJe
attorney! In Colorado counties
. coal mines are loeatea ssj
,cen asked lo 'art criminal proceed- JH
Ings asalnsi all miners In their coun- sjbbbbjj
null work April 1. without BBBBBBBJJ
giving ::o days notice of Intention to JJH
do so required by a tate law. ac- H
. ordlnf '' Will im 1 R iUl a mem
ber of th-- si its Industrial nommH-
I on He said the commission had H
It tiers to all district attorneys
requesting them to enforce the law sSBBBjl
requiring the giving of notice of In-
tentlon to quit H
i l FROM ADASK.V
WASHINGTON. March 28 Pacific
i Coast states In the evont of a pro- H
'longed coal strll W obtain some
from the navy's chlrkalonn coal
field In Alaska It was said today St 1
'the of mines. Although the bbbbbbb
d presen h dj sn output of onlv
about 2r0 tons a day many times thli
, o nt has r n stored by the navy bbbbbb
so tWit an Initial shipment would I
amount tO several thousand tons H
i shin transoortatlon from Seward or H
Ipchorage the states, it was said, B
could be furnished by the shipping B
board which has a number of lake B
tvpe vessels lied up on the Pacific
SO E ISY VICTORY
NKW Yi'RK. March 28. After a IH
preliminary skirmishing, the a 1
miners and operator-' sub-comtnitt-i' H
.hi wags contract negotiations todny H
ed 'bat neither side could look
.iiiv easy victory In the present la' ' 1
conference The minors, with the
knowledge tHal every anthracite coal JMESI
Industrj in the Cnlted States Is union- on
irerl and will cease production en tho
date fixed, assert theh- men arc wll- H
K itlon Thn-
th they can take their time to- H
thresh out the whole situation In the FWbshbsI
anthracite In.tu-try as it affects union Bj
The operators also express a wll
llnvness that tho mines shall cense
producing temporarily! They have :
i taken i positive : . id against any in- BJ
I orcass In miners wages, and have nn BfV
! nounced their Intention of using every
ins to negotiate a new contrnct on
,n hisls of decrease from the presenl
WEINBERG GUILTY,
U. S. JURY DECIDES
NKW VnUK. March 28. A federal
OOUii Jury Monday returned a verdict j "fl
'of guilty against Stephen Weinberg,
j erstwhile secretary to Dr. Adolf Lor- BAB
Inn-. .. ...I tli.. rrtieffs h'.lllm.l who had BBB
been indicted for Impersonating an of-
fleer of the L ulled States navy. The
Jurv deliberated four hours after hear- BBj
lng testimony that Weinberg was a BKBj
sufferer from exaggerated ego.
Weinberg, who had spent 17 months BKB
In an asylum for tho Insane assumed BEB
a high sounding name, represented
himself an a phslclan and was ap- BEB
pointed secretary for Dr. borenz. tin- BKI
prosecution declared. He appeared BKI
' later In the uniform of a lieutenant BKJ
commander of the L'nlted St n;uj
fin the party of the Princess ITatimu,
it was stated, who was noted for the
gem worn in ber nose, and later In- Bl
troduced her to President Harding. BH
He will be sentenced Saturday.
PLAY, 'LADIES' NIGHT'
DECLARED OBSCENE
e'HICAUi'. March 28. Producers of H
theatrical production known a BB
"Uidles" Mghi." by Avery Hopwood. H
w. r. summoned to appear Monday be- B
fore James W. Urcen. first assistant BB
corporation counsel, and answer com- BB
phUnta that the play was obscene.'' H
The play has been assailed as "unfr
for human eyes." by Arthur Uurng' H
Farrell. of the Iiw and Order league H
Representative of A. H. Woods, pro- Bl
ducer ": the farce, declared rhaf i h Bl
criticism was unjustified an it had run
nearlv a war In Now York, "where it
was the fad of the better classes of Bl
New York "
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GARDEN'S OPERA CO.
IN SAN FRANCISCO
' SAN PRANCI8CO, March 2R. Tin- I
Chicago Orand Opera company, un-
der the direction of Mary Carde-i BJ
opened a two weeks' engagement her-
Monday, presenting "Aide." Ros i BJ
Hiilsa sang the title role and Edward
Johnson. American tenor, was Rha- I
dames. The crowd nearly filled the I
Civic auditorium where the Demo-
eratic national convention was hi Id
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